Quotes About Righteous

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

The righteous shall rejoice.

The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise.

the Voice, a resonant echo inside his chest. I will make a way for the righteous. I will not fail the upright of heart. I will not fail you of heavy laden burdens. I will remember you. I will carry you. I will save. I will save.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

God has given us a conscience superior to all law," said Wendell Phillips. The individual's conscience and the Golden Rule top any written law. There is such a thing as righteous lawbreaking.

Our Lord's last words to the persons who called His conduct in question at this time were not merely apologetic, but judicial. "I came not," He said, "to call the righteous, but sinners;" intimating a purpose to let the self-righteous alone and to call to repentance and to the joys of the kingdom those who were not too self-satisfied to care for the benefits offered, and to whom the gospel feast would be a real entertainment.

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

We cannot equate white nationalist violence with what my colleagues on the right stated is 'left-wing extremist violence.' Equating a righteous movement for justice with hateful and racist white nationalism is outright ignorant and disingenuous on your part.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.

The back-seat driving of the less charitable emotions often makes me wonder that the brain does not desert the wheel entirely, in righteous exasperation. Not

Anyone who gets righteous...doesn't understand. Understand what? How hopelessly fragile and wrong we all are. About everything.

He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America.

there's more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people. p890

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

The Essenes of Qumran thought Melchizedek was an angel. The philosopher Philo believed he was the divine Logos. The Jewish historian Josephus said he was only a man, but so righteous that he was "by common consent . . . made a priest of God." David saw Melchizedek as a prototype of the promised Messiah who would establish a new order of king-priests (Psalm 110:1–4).

Cf. also Acts 3:14, 15: "But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One,…and put to death the Prince of life." Boldness (Acts 4:31) and confidence Acts 4:13) now characterized his personality since he had "been with Jesus" and since he had received the Holy Spirit.

Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.

I guess with Heaven closed to mortals, it's been on my mind. Poor slobs living so-called good lives, praying for Heaven and ending up eyeball-deep in shit with all the other losers." "It sounds like you actually feel sorry for the righteous." "Fuck the righteous. I just don't like con jobs. You angels built Heaven and Hell, but you don't want kids playing on your lawns, so you locked everybody out.

Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that's what he promised 'em – his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared – urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they liked...if only they would leave him in peace!" Jubal snorted in disgust. "And the Bible cites this sort of scum as being a righteous man.

There is no such thing as purity. It's an idea in the heads of religious fanatics, the kind of people who kill because they are so good and righteous.